I received a gifted copy and am providing a review.
Leah Miller – Leah lost her family to a horrendous crime ten years
ago. Ellis and Marge took her in after this tragedy and raised her as their
own. In so doing, Leah also left her Amish faith. For the past ten years, she
has been living with the pain of losing her own family and trying to bring the
killer to justice as she followed in Ellis’s footsteps and became a police
officer in the town of St. Ignatius.
Ellis and Marge Petri – The couple who took Leah in. Ellis was the
chief of police and was in charge of Leah’s family’s case. Little did anyone
know, he didn’t handle the case well at all, arrested the wrong person, and hid
the details deeply. Marge became a doting mother to Leah, but Marge has some
long-buried secrets of her own.
Detective Dalton Cooper – Enters the picture these ten years
later. The interesting thing about Dalton is that he was actually around ten
years ago because he, too, was taken in by an Amish family through a tragedy
that befell them. The crime that caused so much pain in Leah’s life also
intersected with Dalton’s own troubled past.
The Plain people in the Amish community of St. Ignatius, Beth,
Eva, Colette, Willa, the other police officers and departments from surrounding
communities all help to form this tale of tragedy, seeking justice and finding
the person responsible and bringing them to justice, and romance help create
this story. There is an underlying message of faith and hope throughout these
pages. And the bad guy in this tale … he is a serious bad guy, a manipulator, a
liar, but he also apparently has a charm that young Amish girls fall for,
however unsuspecting they may be because they are experiencing their rumspringa
… that is the time when they go out and see what the world is all about. They
are sheltered in their lifestyle, so the bad guy is exciting to them.
This won’t be the last book I read by Ms. Alford. I enjoy her
writing style. In this tale, I enjoyed the way she was able to bring together
events from ten years ago into the present having two intersecting cases.
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Thank you, Melissa, for sharing Among the Innocent with your readers. I hope they enjoy reading about it. Have a blessed week.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review! This sounds great - on my wish list!
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